You think you've mastered all American terms...
Oct 7th 2010, 7:44 pm
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Oct 7th 2010, 8:06 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
No, hee-haw. Apparently it means rustic, rube. Something along those lines.
Found it: Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969-1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication.
Found it: Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969-1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication.
Oct 7th 2010, 8:07 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
I looked at Urbandictionary.com. I'm sorry, a Wahoo is a fish.
Oct 7th 2010, 8:10 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
This is a depressing thought, but Encyclopedia Dramatica and Urban Dictionary are to me what lexis-nexis is to you.
Stay in school, kids!
Stay in school, kids!
Oct 8th 2010, 1:52 am
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
I got rather concerned when one of the moms in my sons cub scout den proudly announced that her young lad had shot his first coon at the weekend...and the rest of the parents congratulated him.....
Oct 8th 2010, 1:29 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
Well a couple of months ago i heard the term "weed wacker", wow i was in shock, I still cannot say it without giggling 
no wonder the workers at Home depot looked at us like we were mad when we asked where the grass trimmers were kept.
no wonder the workers at Home depot looked at us like we were mad when we asked where the grass trimmers were kept.
Oct 8th 2010, 1:38 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
Oct 8th 2010, 3:00 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
Ok, where is the naughty connotation in 'weed wacker'? I mean, would a guy refer to his 'little self' as a weed?
Oct 8th 2010, 3:04 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
"Weedwhacker" is a brand name -- which has become genericized. I think they are called "string trimmers."
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Oct 8th 2010, 3:09 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
There is one UK genericized trademark that has always amused me: "hoover."
Oct 8th 2010, 3:11 pm
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Re: You think you've mastered all American terms...
What about Pabst Blue Ribbon in 11 oz bottles? When my children were little they called it "riddle beer" -- they wanted me to drink more so they could have the bottle caps -- cruel father that I was, I stopped buying it.